some bladder tro-able, ana for a year and a half, 2ran 8 tela rra.she 
has hoen oathexerisinf Mia four tine s in each 24 hours— -so than 
must be complete stoppage of the bladder. He suffers intense pain 
at times, she said. His hair and mustache are only iron gray and he 
is so straight that he does not look Sid, hut after our "Ausflmsse" 
he seems very tired. He Is 72, he said. At first I mnderstoof German 
belter than he did ifinglish, though I toe* pains to speak slowly. He 
says he can understand Bn^lish much better than he can American; 
He does not know what I mean when I say Erioehloa or Anthcchloa. 
He said that yen talked of Panieum dichotomy- -what is that, he asked 
yoat#o write it— oh, yon meant de-hot-o-moom. Wit J* that as a smide 
I say Pahs-pab-laaa , etc. , and it goes better. I got information 
that clears up the Philippi herbariiam mystery. In Vienna I saw the 
Philippi plants that Piper had borrowed (Piper's, Kicker's and my 
witing identified then), 3?hey are 'all stamped lerb . Saeksl . Most of 
them were marked "cornm Raichs/' in Haekel script, I said that I 
was interested to seo in his herbaria* the Philippi plants that Piper- 
had borrowed in the winter of 1908-4. He at once bei^ua to tell me 
about it. Keiehe, who was professor at Santiago, (Univ. Chile, I 
think), was working ©n a flora of Chile. He wanted Haekel to, do the 
grasses and sent the whole collection. Prof .Haekel worked them ever, 
he said (what we know) that Philippi was not acquainted with genera, 
and that a large number of his species were synonyms or had to be 
transferred to other genera. Hacl-rel published the new species and 
transfers. (Among over a thousand T do not reaall which they are.) 
Then he prepared a list for Seiche of all the grasses in the Philippi 
herb. He said he would give me this list, I can haae it copied and 
then return it to him. Eeiohe wrote him afterwards that he was leav- 
ing for Mexico. Then the war came and he has never since heard from 
.... 
Ealohe, We shall have to reopen correspondence with him. Whan he 
sent that specimen of Sragrostls obtv.ni.a 
